What this site is, and what it is not

What is published here, and what is not

What is published here is one subject, worked completely: what the 2022 New York City Construction Codes and New York law require of a roof on a one- or two-family house in Richmond County, with the section number, the edition year and a link to the document beside every number. New York City does not use the International Residential Code, so a large share of nationally written roofing advice is wrong here in specific, checkable ways, and those differences are the reason this survey exists.

What is not published here is a phone number, a contact form, an email address, a quote, an estimate, a calculator, an inspection, a testimonial, a review, a star rating, a contractor name, a ranking or a referral. There is no service-area page and no neighbourhood page. No page on this site will find a reader a person, and no page on it is an inspection of, or a determination about, any particular building.

Authority here comes from citation and from nothing else. No claim of expertise, training, trade experience, professional standing or credential is made anywhere on this site, and none should be inferred. The test every page has to survive is a simple one: strip the byline off, and is it still credible? If the answer depends on who wrote it, it does not belong here.

The publication is the author, and no person is named

The byline on every page reads Richmond County Roofing and links to this page. There is no staff list, no author photograph and no biography, because there is no individual whose name would give a reader anything they could check. A name is an appeal to a person's standing; a section number and an edition year are an appeal to a document the reader can open. This site makes the second kind of appeal only, and it makes no claim about who is behind it beyond what is written on this page.

There is no inbox here, so a reader cannot write in to report an error, and no page pretends otherwise. Errors are recorded instead at Corrections, dated, with the page, the wrong text, the right text and the source that settled it.

Nothing here is paid for by advertising, affiliate income or lead generation

This site carries no advertising and no affiliate links today. It has never carried either, and if that ever changes the change is disclosed on this page before it appears on any other. There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no lead-generation partnership, no commission and no revenue share of any kind. Nothing here is for sale, and no page collects a name, an address or a telephone number, because no page contains a form.

Registration and hosting are paid for by the site's operator, and that is the whole of the funding arrangement. It is set out here because a reader deciding how much weight to give a page is entitled to know who gains if the page persuades them. On this site the answer is nobody: there is no transaction at the end of any sentence.

Nobody associated with this site has installed, hired or inspected a roof

Nobody associated with this site has installed a roof, worked on a roofing crew, hired a roofer, inspected a roof, filed a permit or lived through a reroof — not in Richmond County and not anywhere else. No page here will ever say otherwise. No sentence on this site has this site as the actor in a roofing job, and no experience, observation or first-hand account is offered as evidence for anything.

That is a disclosure, not modesty. The Federal Trade Commission's Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials, 16 CFR Part 465, effective 2024-10-21, governs reviews, testimonials and claimed endorsements, including endorsements written by people connected to the seller. The rule is published in the electronic Code of Federal Regulations. This site publishes none of the things it governs: no testimonial, no review, no star rating, no case study, no customer quotation and no narrative of work that nobody here did.

The consequence runs through every page. Where a trade magazine can write that the plywood felt snug underfoot, this site cannot, because nobody here was on the roof. What it does instead is name the document, quote its words, print its edition year and link the file, so that a claim is checked against a source rather than against a stranger's assurance.

This site is not the successor to anything that published at this address before

A roofing business published at this web address until 2022. The domain later dropped completely, other things used the address in the years after that, and it was re-registered on 2026-08-03 by a different registrant, on different nameservers, with no continuity of ownership. This site has no connection to that roofing business and no connection to anything that used the address between 2022 and 2026.

Nothing has been inherited: not a customer, not a job, not a licence, not a warranty, not an obligation, not a claim, and not one sentence of copy. No page here reuses a heading, a service list or a tagline from any earlier version of this address, and no page refers to a history, a founding year or a period of service, because this site has none.

Nothing on this site should be read as a statement about any of those earlier occupants. They are not named here, not linked, and not used as an example in either direction. If a listing on a contractor directory sent a reader here expecting a company, that listing describes a business that is not this site and that this site cannot reach.

How a fact gets onto this site

A fact reaches a page in one order. The document is located; the document is opened; the claim is read in the document's own words; and the section number, the edition year and the link are written into the same sentence as the number. A claim that fails at any one of those steps is not written down, and the failure is written down in its place. A figure that appears on three other websites and in no document is not a figure.

Five words carry fixed meanings wherever they appear on this site.

• VERBATIM — the words are quoted from a document that was opened, and the quotation marks mark where the document begins and ends. Code and statute text is quoted, never paraphrased.
• DERIVED — the figure is arithmetic performed on a quoted value. The method is printed beside it, because a derivation a reader cannot repeat is an assertion.
• REPORTED — the figure comes from a named secondary source, and the source is named in the label rather than hidden behind it. A secondary source is never promoted to a primary one by repetition.
• CONTESTED — two sources that were both opened disagree. Both are printed at full strength, with the character of each source stated, under a heavy dashed rule. The two figures are never averaged and neither is quietly adopted.
• NOT ESTABLISHED — the question was asked and no source that would settle it was opened. Every article carries a numbered list of these, the length of that list is printed in the page's byline bar, and it is never omitted and never hidden when it is zero.

Where a table would carry a figure that no opened source supports, the cell is drawn as an explicit blank rather than filled from secondary reporting, so that the absence takes up the same space on the page as the numbers that were verified. Every document this site has opened is listed once at Every document this site cites.

The three rule weights are borrowed from the legend of a code figure

The only ornament on this site is three horizontal rules, and each one carries a fixed meaning rather than a decorative one. A double rule marks primary source quoted verbatim, and the heaviest line on a page is reserved for the strongest evidence on it. A heavy dashed rule in brick marks a boundary that is interpreted rather than stated — a reading, a derived geometry, or a disagreement between sources. A hairline marks ordinary division and asserts nothing.

The three weights are taken from the legend of Figure 1609.4.3 sheet (5) of the 2022 New York City Building Code, titled NEW YORK CITY WIND EXPOSURE: STATEN ISLAND SHORELINE, which is the only official document that draws lines across this county. Its legend has exactly three symbols, and its text reads:

Heavy dashed — “Exposure C: Buildings within a distance of 2,600 feet from shoreline.”

Heavy solid — “Exposure C: Buildings within a distance of 2,600 feet or 20 times building height from the shoreline, whichever is greater.”

Double line — “Exposure D: Coastal zone, see Section 1609.4.”

The borrowing is graphic and nothing more. On the figure those three symbols mark distance from a shoreline; on this site they mark distance between a statement and its source. The debt is recorded here rather than left silent, because a survey sheet that borrows a legend and does not say so is doing the same thing as a page that borrows an authority and does not name it.

Neither this page nor any other will tell a reader which exposure category their own site falls in. Figure 1609.4.3 sheet (5) is an image rather than text, it sits in the Chapter 16 PDF linked above, and reading a specific address off it is work for a design professional.